DESCRIPTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICAN MICRO=lEPIDOPTERA. 
By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S. 
y. 
Orneodidae. 
Microschismus serricornis, n sp. 
c£. 21 mm., $ 26-27 mm. Head and thorax fuscous sprinkled with 
whitish. Palpi 7-8, whitish-fuscous irr orated with dark fuscous, margins 
mixed with white. Antennae in $ with strong triangular pointed denta- 
tions, moderately ciliated. Abdomen fuscous more or less suffused with 
whitish posteriorly, base white. Forewings fuscous sprinkled with whitish ; 
costa indistinctly marked with white dots or strigulae ; an indistinct 
whitish line from beneath middle of costa to slightly before middle of 
dorsum, hardly traceable in <£, followed by an undefined band of darker 
suffusion ; a slender transverse whitish line at ; blackish dots at apex 
of segments ; cilia pale fuscous sprinkled with darker, with series of fine 
somewhat oblique whitish bars on posterior line, and two faint similar 
series before apex, opposite tips of segments with indistinct transverse 
blackish marks. Hindwings grey- whitish finely irr or a ted with dark grey ; 
cilia pale greyish, with three or four transverse series of faint fine somewhat 
oblique whitish bars on posterior half. 
Pretoria, in March and April (Janse) ; three specimens. Much like 
premnias, but larger, and certainly distinct by different dentation of 
antennae in <$ ; in premnias these teeth are rhomboidal, flat-topped. 
Carposinidae. 
Carposina irata, n. sp. 
?. 17 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous. Palpi 4, whitish- 
ochreous, externally irrorated with blackish. Abdomen ochreous- whitish. 
Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex 
pointed, termen almost straight, rather strongly oblique ; pale ochreous ; 
costal edge dark fuscous on anterior half, more strongly near base ; an 
elongate blackish-fuscous mark on costa at §, followed by three smaller 
marks ; a black dot beneath costa at -J-, one towards dorsum near base, 
one towards dorsum at f, one smaller towards costa at -J, one below middle 
of disc, and two large round ones on angles of cell, preceded by an 
irregular patch of fuscous suffusion extending nearly to costa ; cilia pale 
ochreous suffused with fuscous, appearing to form two broad very unde- 
fined shades. Hindwings ochreous-whitish ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 
Pretoria, in October (Janse) ; one specimen. 
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